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Hi Rhaven Blaack, sorry to disappoint you, but this is "it". I finished the vignette last December and just posted 15 photos as I wasn't regularly taking photos during assembly. castle in the sky is a Hayo Miyazaki anime adaption of an excerpt of Gulliver's Travels. I might have developed a...

Had some problems with the robot and the kid. Broke the ankles to both. This happenned as I wasn't careful to remenber that the pins inserted to fix the figures can make the models to be more fragile. Problem fixed and the characters in place.

Also changed the fingers on th eright hand in order to hold a bouquet of flowers. Forgot to take photos during the building and painting process. For the base I found a ceramic vase. I knew i wanted something conical for the base to fgive the impression of floating, never though i would find it...

Started with the two kids figures. Tried to paint them as sharp as my sight allows. The robot building is straight. Just added some texture with diluted putty and openned a hole on his back revealing the "mechanics".

Built it almost out-of-the-box. Got inspired by this image

Beautifully done. Inspiring.

Beautiful project.

The skeleton adds a lot of interest to the kit. I wasn't aware it was included in the box.

Waw! Apologise for my lack of vocabulary...

I looked at the instructions and the designers admit it is a simplified version. Ther I'm totally lost, cannot say a thing, except to try to interprete the Björn Landström ilustration of a galleon. He was very knowleageble. I keep on finding ilustration based on his work. The technology of...

My doubt is about this ilustration of a gun from a spanish galleon from 1530. The solution with the elevation pole holding on the deck seems to me too flimsy and wonder wht would do to the deck planking with the violent recoil. My data dates at least 40 years, a lot of things have been...

Finally a dutch galleon dating from 1593, a model offered to King Filipe IInd of Spain and still preserved in the Museo naval de Madrid. What is for me more revealing is the system of elevation of the gun.The carriage consists of two wheels and a kind of skid. The elevation mechanism is above...

An ilustration showing the several decks of the French nau or kraak Henry Grâce à Dieu, from 1545. The guns are alocated to the decks according to their weigth. No details on how these guns wolud elevate.

A very colourful spanish galleon of 1540. Low lines, a bridge connecting the stern castel ot the bow castle. Doors closing tight the low deck with guns. The details about the guns is very vague. It looks like they don't have any wheels.

The Venitian carraca or kraak (a term used in Northen Europe) shows a ship wich ratio lenght/widness is similar to the naus. Interesting detail in htis ilustration is the gun mount. A carriage with no wheels just two transversal boards to stand the recoil. Also impossible to understand how the...

The next ilustrations depict the Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai, the biggest ship of its time (ca. 1520), stil a nau or kraak, not a galleon. I could only find the depiction of a colibrina, but with good detail.

I also found some ilustrations from Björn Landström a great Swedish ilustrator and Naval History investigator. The books are: "A Caminho da Índia" (on the path to India) and the other "The ship". He also have another book about Christovão Colombo. Books publised in the end of the 60s, begining...

I scanned some books I have home. I found an image depicting the firing tests in the period of D. João II off the coast of Setúbal. It seems that the Portuguese were devoloping a method of extending the range with ricochet, this made with field tests and mathematical calculations. The method is...

I got curious on the guns of the period of this galleon, after you started building it. The Portuguese and Spanish galleons must have been quite similar as it might have been the weapons onboard. I have recently read a book about an artillery fortress (Torre de S. Sebastião de caparica) on the...

It is a remarkable achievement with paper at this scale. Congratulations